In addition to our high level negotiating expertise, our clients recognize our first-rate intervention quality and reliability. This recognition is very important to us and we do everything we can to maintain it. This is the responsibility of all our project managers, who form a stable, highly-qualified community.

Arnaud DAMBREVILLEProject Manager

Arnaud joined Arcante Group in 2010, as a project manager. He is involved in training and coaching negotiators in purchasing as well as sales roles. His scope of intervention is international. Previously, he worked as a sales director in the pharmaceutical and medical sector, before joining an international consulting firm as a senior consultant. Arnaud holds a DESS degree in international management, as well as a master's degree in international industrial marketing.

Jean Baptiste HOUZETProject Manager

Jean Baptiste joined Arcante Group in 2002, two years after its founding. A specialist in purchasing negotiations, Jean Baptiste is regularly involved, both as a consultant and trainer, in international environments with large industrial and retail companies. The most senior of our project managers, he has also largely contributed to the design of our programmes and the training of the firm's consultants. Jean Baptiste has a degree in economics and is a graduate of EDHEC. He has served as an industrial purchasing manager for an agri-food company, purchasing coordinator for an international industrial group, and purchasing director for a distribution center specialising in personal goods.

Blandine BILLARDProject Manager

Blandine joined Arcante Group in 2009. A specialist in interpersonal negotiation strategies, she has a dual knowledge of behavioral aspects and professional negotiations. She is regularly involved in social negotiation training missions. Previously, she worked for several years in sales network management positions, before focusing on the role of HR Director. She then joined a sales consulting and training firm, before joining a firm specialising in human resources. Blandine holds a master's degree in human resource management.

Eric MUSSAULTProject Manager

Eric joined Arcante Group in 2004 as a project manager. An expert in professional negotiations in an international environment, Eric works around the world on training and coaching missions, particularly with purchasing and sales negotiation teams for industrial groups. Before joining Arcante Group, Eric worked as a sales director in a supply chain group in the US, external relations director for an advertising leader in the Netherlands, then as director of Asia-Pacific operations for an electronics group. He holds an Executive MBA from HEC Group, a DESS degree in international commerce and is a graduate of the International Commerce Institute of Paris.

Samuel AGUILARProject Manager

Samuel joined Arcante Group in 2007 as a project manager. A specialist in distribution sales negotiations, Samuel regularly works with large industrial companies to train and coach their sales negotiators. Before joining Arcante Group, Samuel was export director with an industrial SME, and negotiations director in the textile industry. He is a graduate of the ESC Lille business school.

Laurent PLANTEVINPredident and Founder

In April 2000, Laurent Plantevin founded Arcante Group, based on a specific negotiation technology he designed, inspired by international institutional negotiations. This exclusive, innovative technology combines negotiations tools, techniques, and methods into a reliable, effective model that improves the quality of negotiations and the agreements made. It was an immediate, strong success in business, where it was hailed for its effectiveness and pragmatism. Arcante Group has experienced strong, continuous growth since its founding and has become a world leader in negotiations consulting. In his role as President of Arcante Group, Laurent Plantevin oversees the operational management of the firm's consultants and personally supervises all the consulting missions carried out. He also continues to work in business as a negotiations consultant with managerial teams and leads many conferences on negotiations strategy. He also leads missions in the field of international institutional negotiation (Delegation for strategic affairs for the French Ministry of Defence, Managing international projects for Handicap International).

Jean-Maxence BELQUINProject Manager

Jean-Maxence joined Arcante Group as a project manager in 2006. A specialist in professional negotiations in an international context, particularly in cutting edge industrial environments, he is involved in training and coaching throughout the world with purchasing or sales negotiators. After receiving an Executive MBA from EDHEC, Jean-Maxence acquired solid experience with major international industrial groups as a project manager and production purchasing coordinator.

Paul-Henri PLANTEVINProject Manager

Paul-Henri joined Arcante Group in 2006 as a project manager. A specialist in purchasing and interventions in an international context, Paul-Henri works worldwide on consulting and training missions in negotiation with large industrial and distribution companies. He has a doctoral degree in chemistry from Cambridge University. Throughout his professional experience, Paul-Henri has initiated and lead many projects with operational management (Purchasing, R&D, IT) in an international environment.

Olivier LORIDANTAssociate Director

In 2000, Olivier helped found Arcante Group as an Associate Director. A major expert in business education/learning? and negotiation, he works closely with Laurent Plantevin toward the influence of professional negotiation technology, by developing learning and expertise transfer methods. He mainly works on missions, often complex, to train and coach negotiators, both in purchasing or sales or social environments. Before joining Arcante Group, Olivier worked in a major sales training firm, as a consultant, learning manager, then project manager. This experience, representing some fifteen years, has given him great mastery of teaching methods and an acute knowledge of business relations.